Template:Did you know nominations/John Shearer (photographer)
- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:21, 20 August 2019 (UTC)
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John Shearer (photographer)
- ... that John Shearer was the second African-American staff photographer at Life and was the neighbor of Gordon Parks, the first? Source: "When Mr. Shearer was growing up in Westchester, one of the family’s neighbors was Gordon Parks, the first African-American to work as a staff photographer for Life magazine. He eventually brought Mr. Shearer to Life, where they worked side by side." [1]; Source: "He became one of the youngest staff photographers at a major publication when Look magazine hired him at age 17, and became the second African-American photographer at LIFE." [2] (and [link] the source, or cite it briefly without using citation templates)
- ALT1:... that John Shearer won 175 national awards for photography? Source: "Mr. Shearer would win 175 national photography awards." [3]
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Perla Farías
- Comment: I have thoughts for other hooks, but I particularly like the first.StudiesWorld (talk) 15:07, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
Created by StudiesWorld (talk). Self-nominated at 15:07, 29 July 2019 (UTC).
Interesting life on few but good sourcs, no copyvio obvious. If this was my nomination, I'd find a hook about "iconic moments", but as you wish. If this was my article, I'd write a very short lead = summary, then a header (Life, Career, you name it), with later the works mentioned in the first paragraph. I'd also give it an infobox. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:23, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
